[SOLVED] NDISwrapper on embedded linux

I have successfully installed NDISwrapper on fedora. I want to install it on embedded platform( AT91sam9260 microcontroller based) after porting embedded linux into it. So will it work and how do I proceed??

No, NDISwrapper allows you to use Windows XP device drivers on linux. Therefore it only works with x86 architectures.

Are you trying to get an existing USB wireless adapter working on the AT91sam9260?

Thanks!!Yes I was trying to use existing reliance wireless USB adapter on AT91sam9260. But I know that NDISwrapper works on Rasberry pie.So I thought there would be some way to make it work on other platform.

The RPi is also an ARM device and a quick search did not find anything that indicates NDISwrapper works.

It does not work on anything but X86.

The problem is that it is designed to provide an interface for Windows X86 drivers - and thus has to use X86 assembly code to do that.

The amount of code isn't all that large, but it is only X86 drivers that are supported. Most Windows drivers that you can get will be only X86 - and thus won't work on non-X86 processors anyway.

You have even more work trying to implement an X86 emulator for the driver... if the result would even fit in memory.

Originally Posted by michaelk The RPi is also an ARM device and a quick search did not find anything that indicates NDISwrapper works.

I also have the same notion about NDISwrapper being x86 specific. But got source codes of NDISwrapper for raspberry. Links are:

http://code.metager.de/source/xref/r...gadget/rndis.c
http://code.metager.de/source/xref/r...gadget/rndis.h
http://code.metager.de/source/xref/r.../gadget/ndis.h

This source codes made be think about the feasibility of NDISwrapper towards other ARM based platforms.

RNDIS is not the same thing as NDISwrapper.

Got it!!! Thanks a lot! Saved me from going in wrong direction.